Reviews
Echoing Angels or Echoing Eighties?
March 26, 2007
By Chris Anderson
Echoing Angels--You Alone
2006, Sony
Reversal of Fortune
Originally, this review was going to compare Echoing Angel’s debut, You Alone, to Sloppy Joes. Sloppy Joes are neither good nor bad, but mediocre to the highest degree. When you just need nourishment—Sloppy Joe. This album has a good sound and accomplishes the purpose of worship, but musically and theologically it fails to say anything fresh and invigorating . . . or maybe not.
The Book of Lost Things
by John Connolly. Atria, 2006. 339 pp.
Reviewed by Alison AndrewsMarch 19, 2007
The children in classic fairy tales often find themselves alone and in danger. Their survival depends on their ability to discern the true nature of the characters they encounter and also, of course, on their ability to cleverly defeat their enemies. In The Book of Lost Things, 12-year-old David finds himself in a situation similar to the children in the fairy tales he loves. His world is in turmoil: his mother has recently died after a long illness; his father has remarried and started a new family; and they have moved into the country to escape the German bombs. What’s more, the books in David’s attic room have started talking to him, and he is also experiencing strange attacks in which he dreams of wolves and kings. When David hears his mother’s voice calling him, he follows the call into the sunken garden and from there into the world of fairy tales.
Larry Carter Live at the Point Concert and DVD Filming
Featuring Larry Carter, Kelton French, Point of Grace Praise Team
March 12, 2007
Reviewed by Jamin Tuttle
Beautiful News--Matt Redman
2007, Sparrow Records
Reviewed by Chris Anderson
The Miracle of Life
Page-Turners With a View
Reviewed by Alison Andrews
So tell me, what makes you keep turning the pages?
If you’re like a lot of people, it’s the plot. The anonymous literary agent Miss Snark, whose venom-tinged, yet hilarious advice to writers has earned her quite a following, receives a lot of unpublished novels that begin with someone waking up in the morning. Or a dream. Or two characters talk, talk, talking about a situation. Can you spot what all of these openings have in common?
Bianca Ryan--Bianca Ryan
2006, BMG Music Entertainment
Reviewed by Ben Meydam
Merely one year ago, this 12 year-old prodigy walked onto the America’s Got Talent stage, worked her way through the ranks, and won. Now she is walking into our lives with her self-titled debut album.
Little House in the Suburbs: Revisiting Laura Ingalls Wilder
January 22, 2007
The Little House series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Reviewed by Alison Andrews
Growing up, I wasn’t content just to read the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I wanted to be Laura. I pretended my bed was a covered wagon and rode west, wearing a sunbonnet my mother had somehow found. Life on the frontier became real to me through those books.
The Second Chance
Directed by Steve Taylor, 2006
January 15, 2007
Reviewed by Josh Lewis
Can a movie change a person? This is a question asked in the behind-the-scenes commentary for The Second Chance. After viewing this DVD, my answer is, “I hope so!”
Inside Out
Reviewed by David Agriesti
January 8, 2007
Mark Tewksbury is the swimmer who won the gold medal at the Olympics in 1992 at the Barcelona Games. He was raised in Calgary, Alberta by adoptive parents, although he doesn’t make much of the adoption.
DC Talk - Jesus Freak 10th Anniversary Special Edition
January 1, 2007
Forefront Records, 2006
Reviewed by Ben Meydam
Their influence has possibly done more for the Christian music genre than any other group in the last decade. It isn’t that they were the greatest group/band of the 90s, though that is debatable among many. It’s that DC Talk connected to youth all across America.
Does Ap Culture encourage/discourage individual creativity in the arts (painting/ photography/ video/ writing, etc.)? Why?
The Information Age, for us, is over. China and India are well ahead of us already; we have entered the Creative Age.